Last fall we reported that hundreds of drivers in public vehicles, like school buses and police cruisers, had been nabbed running through Houston’s red-light cameras.

More than 100 Houston police vehicles moving through intersections without emergency lights were cited in the first year of the cameras’ operation, according to ticket data. …

The officers’ citations were among more than 520 tickets issued to local public schools, governments and the area’s transit agency since the cameras went online last fall. The tickets resulted in nearly $40,000 in fines, according to electronic records released under the Texas Public Information Act.

Few would argue that police and other emergency workers should get tickets for acting during emergencies, and in some situations they must drive through red-light intersections without lights and sirens.

But should there be an exemption for public employees who make mistakes and run lights? There are a few hundred thousand ticketed Houstonians who might like to get a pass, too.